They sure could if they want to.

I don’t believe the government intended to create a business from the migrant crisis though, it just happens to be where their choices brought them.

Thanks, I continued looking further into it as well and found another article on it, which states:

Retailers reported a 93% increase in annual shoplifting incidents in 2023 compared to 2019.

So I believe you are right. Guess op proves that often you can have either interesting text with poorly supported numbers, or boring text with well supported facts. Too bad though, cause i did actually enjoy reading the article (so extra shout-out to op for sharing).

Shoplifting happens 93% more often now or is the statistic that the value of stolen goods increased by 93% in total? I feel like that matters a lot.

Edit: the article quite well written if you ask me, but lacks sources. There is a graph, but that doesn’t show the numbers mentioned. It shows losses of 31.1B in 2019 and an estimated 47.8B in 2025, which is a rise of ~54% not 93%. It presents itself as investigative journalism, but feels more like a op-ed instead.

This is how it should be in a just world, but we do not live in one

I agree, but if we as people do whatever the fuck we want the politicians won’t have a good example of how they’re supposed to treat people.

and the only reason we even have basic human rights at all is because they were violently protested for, and 99% of the violence came from the state.

We the people do have allies within the state, although there are plenty of places were those allies are kicked out as soon as they do some good, not all states are an enemy of the people. Again, i too believe we should uphold politicians to high standards and we should praise them without good reason, but the least we can do is treat them as decently as we’d like to be treated ourselves. But i guess if i was living in a place where national politics was a mess like the UK or US, i’d be less willing to defend the basterds that are breaking ‘my’ democracy too. Not judging anyone in that regard.

Though i’m against criminalizing protesters, i do think people who do bad things on their job also deserve a private life. If they break the law they should be brought to court obviously, but if they act within the bounds of the rule of law protest should be against the movement or the system that allows this bad individual that does the bad thing. I’ll get some downvotes for saying this, but i believe we should not only be decent to people who do things we like, but to literally everyone.

You can be a foreigner, no problem. You can be super-rich, that’s fine. But both? Unacceptable.

Would make it more livable too, without Moscow’s oppression.

People without ADHD may be less creative, my personal experience found

They sure are, and they didnt went there as football hooligans. Point is there was an organised effort to instigated violence by a group that is different fromt the group that organised a peaceful protest - even though both groups have similar political views.

Dutchie here - the violence wasn’t instigated by the right-wing protesters but by football hooligans who tend to have similar views on migration. I think it is important to make the distinction especially since English language reporting on this is much more alarmist imo.

Edit because i wrote my comment in the wrong place, but i totally agree with this.

I’m also disappointed in the guy that’s causing all this!!

wE aRe aN enErgY cOmpAny noT An oiL coMpaNy!1! Lol

Great, do Russian spy drones next

Guess it’s gonna either be Eurovision without Israel or Israelvision with Germany

Could When will it?

Sounds plausible, Russia’s invasion of Georgia didn’t seem like a big deal to me back then. Same as Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Media failed me in each of those cases. I feel like i’m having less blind spots as i get older, but i’m obviously still not fully there yet.

Now you mention them, interesting how Israel and Russia are matter of discussion and Azerbaijan isn’t despite their invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh

Them silently knowing his identity is not the same as them proving his identity in court though.